Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – #gazaunderattack Victory is Near
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One thing, which is very important today is to change the perspective
of the masses about the reality of who the aggressor is, and who the
victims are. The media, the common media for three, four days at the
beginning of the convict, all I consulted, I didn't have time, I
was just looking at The Guardian, which I thought it was a bit,
okay, initially, and the BBC. Then after four days, I just didn't
want to go onto social media, because that is very consuming.
Finally, I went onto Twitter, and it's a whole nother world out.
The coverage in places like Twitter and other places are not
more open, and you see a lot more positivity towards understanding.
That's why you and I need to raise as much awareness. Because
otherwise, the gruesome aggression is usually hidden.
This gruesome, this aggression that is happening right now is
open, because they justify,
they've tried to justify and show people that it's just the
response. And now we can do what we want.
Our job is to put out the stories for the true messages to raise
awareness between not just our Muslim community, but people of
other faiths, because that is very important. Until the tide doesn't
change. In that sense. The politicians won't get it right.
My dear brothers and sisters, on this Friday, while our brothers
have been going through many, many difficulties.
I'm not standing here to tell you what's so bad about the enemy,
because I'm sure everybody knows that. And I'm not here to seek
politics. I'm here to try to make some sense of it. What's our
responsibility? Why these things may be happening? And is it a
failure? Is it a loss? Is it a defeat? Or is this all just part
of the victory of Islam ultimate? And what should our responsibility
be? Everybody's hearts are shaken, and crying over the huge amounts
of loss of especially innocent lives. And
how many children and many others are dying, whether it's a child or
adults, I don't think it makes a difference. To be honest, I think
it's just the loss of a life and that's big enough.
What we have to understand is that Allah subhana wa, tada has a
system in this world, a cycle, a sunnah.
A certain practice, which is historically been recurring. And
this time is no different than any others.
We've had much greater seemingly or what seemed like failures, and
we've had huge amounts of victories.
Also, what we have to differentiate between is the
difference between
winning the battle and winning the war.
Sometimes you may, you may not win the battle, but you will win the
war ultimate,
which is a more long term goal that we're talking about. And in
terms of that, ALLAH SubhanA wa has inserted iServer 62. Anyway,
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the recent Atilla he studied up, this is the same path, this is the
same system
and the same cycle that has passed in the people before you and there
is you will find no change in the Sunnah of Allah in the way of
Allah subhanho wa taala.
One of them is that Allah subhana wa Tada always, ultimately gives
assistance and defense and success to the believers, to His prophets,
to his only meaning to his loved ones. And to the true believers,
he always can give success, there's no doubt about that they
will be given success. Our concept and idea of success is a greater
idea than just winning a battle, you have to remember that because
ultimately, you have to remember that this world is only a
temporary place. And everybody among us is gonna die. Everybody
who came before us has already died. And everybody that is here
now will finally die. And everybody that will come will also
die. So we come into the world, we stay here for a while and then we
die. But the wonderful thing is that we have the belief in the
Hereafter. This is not the final world. In fact, it's actually only
the beginning. It's the place to make the next world and one of the
things which has a direct a direct correlation between this world and
the next is how a person dies. The person dies in a
could state the next world is a wonderful place if a person dies
in an unnatural state, which means that if a person is killed,
especially in a battle, they become shaheed, which means they
become your witnesses. And for them, it's a closer, easier path
to paradise. It's a faster path to paradise. It's a relief from the
misery of this world. For us, it may seem like yours are cut off
from their like deprivation of years of their life. But
ultimately, if the real life were in and out here at the law Hill
Haiwan. When that is the true light, then what does it matter
how long a person lived here, except to have benefited
themselves and earn more. That's why I think Allah compensates
people who die in unnatural causes, because they seem to have
died unnaturally. before their time though that is the time that
Allah had written for them anyway, they wouldn't get it. They weren't
going to last any longer than that. But the unnatural causes the
violent causes in many cases that people go by.
That there's about 70, nearly 70 people mentioned in the Hadith
that die from various different types of murders and killings, and
deaths of unnatural means that are considered Shaheed and martyrs in
the sight of Allah subhanho wa taala. So if the ultimate world is
the next world, then that just helps deal with this pain a lot
more easily, a lot more easily. It helps us to deal with the pain
after the fact we don't live in this world.
Hoping today straightaway, because this world is a chance for us to
make the hereafter, we want to be as long as possible, and try to
accumulate as much as possible. But if somehow our life is so
called cut short according to what some people might think, and it's
done in unnatural ways, then that person has a good chance of
success if they be doing good and they had the right intention. So
we pray for all of our brothers and sisters who have died in this
conflict, who have died in this aggression. And in this war, that
Allah subhana wa Tada grabbed in the shahada that's required for
that that that they would have hoped for, and that every all of
their loved ones and us hope for them. Allah subhanho wa Taala
says,
Who under the salah rasool Allah will will help he's the one who
sent His messenger with the absolute truth within will help
bit with the guidance and religion of truth. You're on the religion
of suit. That's the religion of Allah subhanho wa Taala sent new
hero who had been equally so that he can cause it to dominate over
all faiths. So it has dominated over all faiths. And even today,
it is the only faith which is increasing, which is increasing,
and it is still dominant because it is the only faith.
There may be other faiths with slightly
higher numbers in membership. But in terms of practicing followers
of any faiths, Islam can't be beaten under
Islam can't be beaten in that regard. You probably have 20
million or more people who have memorized the whole Quran.
Nothing, nobody else. They can't even give you 100 people memorize
their book.
We have 20 million just in places like Clapton, alone, there'd be
1000. And 20 million is a safe number. It'd be a lot more than
that. We have more people practicing regularly pray five
times a day Joomla congregating together,
donating and multiple other things with an affinity. We're still a
community who cares for their profits. So when somebody says
something wrong about their profits, they feel it. It's not
just seen as an academic point, or a bit of humor. No, we take it
serious.
Because that's not a place of insults. We love our Prophet
sallallahu alayhi wa salam Alhamdulillah when the world gets
more and more confusing,
to such a degree that the confusion has gotten today to a
level where it's never gotten before, even about the reality of
what a human being is male or female.
We have no such confusion in Islam. It's very clear.
It's very clear what it is.
There are multiple confusions family, families breaking down
family systems breaking down
Hamdulillah that still exists in our faith and it needs to continue
to exist. That's very important that it continues to exist. So one
thing we have to remember that when Allah subhanaw taala is Pro
has promised Nasir Nasir means assistance. It can also mean
victory in a sense that
doesn't mean that you will win every single battle. You will
suffer the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam had to suffer. If
you look amazingly in the Battle of budock, when they were only 313
they overcame 1000.
No problems. They managed to kill 70 of the leaders of Kurdish. Two
years later, during the Battle of Wuhan.
They had a lot more people. But while they had the initial
victory, they thought they were winning. Then after a ended in a
stalemate, it ended. And the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam himself was wounded in that but
but ALLAH SubhanA, WA Tada gave them a lot of comfort and said,
Fine, it's one time this way, one time that way. Sometimes you're
going to lose, sometimes you're going to win. It's the way of the
worlds that's the way the world works. You win some and you'll do
some, ultimately, you're always going to remain at the top. You're
always going to remain at the top in terms of the overall picture.
That's what you have to remember.
That's why in Saudi Arabia and Allah says, and Medina Carla who
NASA in the NASA called Jamar who will come for her show.
Those people who when people said to them, that so many people have
gathered against you, they've all gathered each other together
against you, you should fear them, because I do have Imana that
actually facade the whole Imana that actually increase them in the
I heard the same words coming from people.
I had the same words coming from the press, our press provinces
were called who has not Wahoo and Milwaukee, they said as when
Allahu
Allah is sufficient for us. And he's the best of patients
Subhanallah ferns and caribou binaire multiman Allah he will
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now we? Allah says that they returned with the name of Allah.
What namah a bounty they returned with the bounty of Allah subhana
wa Athan and His grace, the evil cannot afflict them.
They follow the pleasure of Allah subhanho wa Taala they still
strongest entity and ALLAH SubhanA wa Tada is full of mighty grace as
this mighty grace.
Another example of this is when the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa
sallam agreed to the Treaty of today via no time here to discuss
the details, but it seemed disadvantages to the Goossens even
O'Mara. The Alon complete or spoke up and said, How is this
beneficial for us? It seemed like the terms were all beneficial for
the other side. But Allah subhana wa Tada calls it enough that no
like a movie, we gave you the great victory. We crave you the
great victory didn't look like a victory. But it was the setup of
the great victory. And finally, Macau was taken.
These are small steps. I know we want immediate satisfaction, and
immediate wins all the time. But that it doesn't happen that way.
That's not the way of the world.
What gives me the greatest amount of hope. The greatest amount of
hope is that I visited a country about two months ago.
It was a country that is now ruled by a faction. A group of people
that were 20 years had to be in Haiti.
They were warring. They were battling superpower of the world,
along with 39 other countries, a coalition of 40 countries for 20
years, and the guys were saying we had to hide. Even if you had to go
out to buy something, you have to literally disguise ourselves
because there were so many of them went to prison persecution, the
worst types of persecution, and so on and so forth. sabar, they lost
a lot of people, a lot of people were killed. But after 20 years,
40 countries had to put their hands up and receive and retreats
including the superpower of the world's with the most advanced
advanced systems and weapons and technology and every compared to
these guys who had nothing.
I didn't understand it. It didn't hit me until I got there. Then I
realized what it really happens. I thought that's that's a victory.
It's the long game. It's the victory. So we can suffer losses.
This is not to make ourselves feel good. I'm not saying this so that
we don't care anymore. anything great. So Fine, let people be
killed. No. Our job is to minimize that. We have to do what's
required of us to do very important for us to do what is in
our ability and within our capability to do
One thing which is very important today is to change the perspective
of the masses about the reality of who the aggressor is, and who the
victims are. The media, the common media for three, four days at the
beginning of the convict, all I consulted, I didn't have time, I
was just looking at The Guardian, which I thought it was a bit,
okay, initially, and the BBC. Then after four days, I just didn't
want to go onto social media, because that is very consuming.
Finally, I went onto Twitter, and it's a whole nother world out.
The coverage in places like Twitter and other places are not
more open, and you see a lot more positivity towards understanding.
That's why you and I need to raise as much awareness. Because
otherwise, the gruesome aggression is usually hidden.
This gruesome, this aggression that is happening right now is
open because they justify,
they've tried to justify and show people that it's just the
response. And now we can do what we want.
Our job is to put out the stories for the true messages to raise
awareness between not just our Muslim community, but people of
other faiths because that is very important. Until the tide doesn't
change in that sense. The politicians won't get it right.
They have their affinities they have their agreements, whatever it
is that they have Wallah, why them, right, that's not a time to
go into all of that right now. But they have their they blinders,
they blinded or just sheer whatever I don't know, right? So
our job is to get the Joe Bloggs on the street to understand this
reality. Then in sha Allah, we can see inshallah more happiness, a
one job of ours physically we need to do that, that that means
campaigning, and
talking to your MP, and counselors and other people Hamdulillah this
time, a lot has gone on this time and hamdulillah positive things
have gone on, people resigning and so on.
We only have a bit of time, so I can't talk about everything else.
But one very important thing, which is the most important thing
that one of us can do, and should do and need to do is the DUA and
this means really hard to sell door with every means of having
doors accepted. We put behind it to get our doors accepted. That
means giving some charity before calm down Allah's Anger that gets
to us accepting the Hydretain to other accepted. But above all, the
one thing which is what is preventing the Ostrom exam, from
being accepted is that we will continue to sin and doo doo on the
other side. I want to have my cake and eat it. I want relief for my
brothers and sisters. But I am going to continue to enjoy my life
in the Haram ways that I've incorporated in them. Not entirely
haram but I am doing sins committing this that another I
don't want to give that up. I don't want to I don't feel like
doing that. I'm not even thinking about that I shouldn't affect
anything no he does. If my dua needs to be accepted, then I need
to do my best to take off all the obstacles in the path of the
acceptance of dua, which is since you just can't do it both way that
answers the question of why and when otherwise accepted. You have
to make that effort How can I you and I change our life? Some of
these guys they died with no inst with no, absolutely no, no
warning. Were they prepared to die? I just pray that they were we
could all die also with no preparation with no notice. Are we
ready to die? Or do we want to meet Allah subhana wa Tada with
all of our sins and not have made doba and to continue since I say
we pray that Allah subhanaw taala forgive all of our sins, and stop
all of our sins, especially those ones that have become part of our
life when we don't even think their sins and
that is really the most worrying pardon for that we need to have
knowledge to learn more. May Allah subhana wa Tada bring relief to
our brothers and sisters. And may Allah subhanho wa Taala grant them
that Nasir and the victory and assistance and Allah subhanho wa
Taala grant them the patience that's required. And may Allah
subhana wa Tada allow us to do what is beneficial for us to do in
the right way with a balanced approach and a conscious mind, and
may Allah accept it and reject us all. While you're down. And
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